The last days of humanity

Karl Kraus' monumental drama The Last Days of Mankind is a perceptive and bitter reckoning with the horrors of the First World War. Written between 1915 and 1922, in over 200 scenes, Kraus depicts the depths of war in all its grotesque and equally unbearable absurdity: from the cynical delusion of politicians and disinformation by the press to the dull indifference of the population. Kraus relentlessly exposes how the intertwining of power intere...